We had a private charter with 3 passengers over the weekend and over to Catalina Island we went. I got a new camera 20 minutes prior to departure and had no idea how to use it, so I just snapped away at a bunch of pictures from our day trying to learn it.

Anywho, I am always interested in new gear when it comes out. Im still very impressed by Shimanos new Trinidad A series reels. I recently bought a Trinidad 12 to add to my arsenal. Its super light weight, and feels really good in my hand. I loaded it up with 200 yds of 65lb spectra and 25 yds of 25lb.....
I also got to try out Shimanos new Terez designed for souther california style fishing fly lining dines or squid on a slider.

The rods so far are super light....weighs in at 11 ounces. I didnt catch anything big on it, but so far I like it.

Fishing was on the slow slide, but as we saw some good conditions near the kelp line, we opted for our chance at seabass. We used the traditional rig we have been using which is a 6/0 Owner Aki Twist hook with about a 3/8 egg sinker with the fresh dead squid. For our efforts, we were rewarded with 4 White seabass with 3 of them being cookie cutter schoolies at around 32-33 inches and 1 nice halibut to go with it. Squid again was easy to make. Still always a nice day at Catalina Island.

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562-266-6228

Here are the pics :

Starting to see more and more new Trinis:

Our most popular rig:

Morning

This was before it started to blow out there... Lake Pacific

East End

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Thanks Billy
We had a great time fishing the Spectra!!!!! Super clean ride and a nice crew. They were able to make a ton of squid and we picked up some nice fin bait before we left the harbor. Lots of calicos caught on both fin and squid. Like Billy said the light weight, almost fly line seemed to get bit the best. Come to think of it I don't know if anything was caught on the dropper loop. Seabass came in the late afternoon after we found a good looking milk line off one of the beaches. Saw a few free swimmers around the boat but all about the same size. I spent a lot of my day throwing the new wax wing bait. Man are they fun to play with!!! Throw those suckers places you would have never been able to put a iron. Rod tip pointed at the bait and reel, they swim like a perfect swimming iron. I've caught calico, bonito, mackerel, white fish and barracuda on them. Can't wait for the first yellow on one, or White Sea Bass. That will be fun stuff.
Too many positive things to say about the Spectra and it's crew, if I listed them all you would think it was a commercial. It's for sure a boat I can't wait to get back out on. Saw some pictures of some MONSTER rock fish and lings that I can't wait to go pull on.
Thanks again guys
EFISH
Bob Sands Tackle
Reuben see ya soon.